US 10,679,048 B2 · granted 2020Open on Google Patents ↗US 11,341,353 B2 · continuation, granted 2022Open on Google Patents ↗
Microsoft · co-inventorPrincipal Distributed Systems & AI Architect
Gilles Peron
Architecting deterministic cloud infrastructure across control planes, data planes and core services, with zero-trust security and production-grade agentic AI.
OCI · Region build · Queue · Streaming · Service Connector Hub · Announcements
OCI 2020–26Microsoft 2013–203 US patentsENSIIE
20+
years in systems and security
~40
service teams onboarded to a deterministic region build
50+/0
high-risk changes reviewed, zero outages
3
US patents granted, plus 2 published
Where the work sits
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMScontrol + data planes
SECURITY & IDENTITYzero trust · crypto
APPLIED AIML · agents · MCP
Zero-trust control planes
Agent infrastructure
Guardrails
Production-grade agentic AI
From security to agents
Employer
Security & cryptography
Schedulers & heavy I/O
Identity & zero trust
Applied AI & ML
Product engineering at scale
Distributed data planes
Cloud control planes & IaC
20002005201020152020NOW
Most recent workEarlier work
Selected systems
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Detail A · Enlarged · OCI · Region Build · 2025–26
Zero-trust cross-realm authentication
Replaced legacy cross-realm authentication with a token bridge governed by a database-backed state machine. It eliminated a major compliance deviation and became the reference for OCI cross-realm services.
AActorsOperator + machine userseparate approval paths
BToken bridgeApproval lifecycledatabase-backed state machine
CIsolated realmScoped executionsovereign and test realms
1 · ProblemLegacy patterns for authenticating across isolated cloud realms had created a major security compliance deviation.
2 · ApproachAuthored the principal architecture and won approval for a cross-realm token bridge: separate machine-user and human-operator approval lifecycles, destructive resets included, held in a database-backed state machine. Brokered the trade-offs across Identity, Security and Region Build.
3 · ResultDeviation eliminated. Now the reference implementation for OCI cross-realm services.
Spec
Zero trustState machinesPKICross-org alignment
G2023 – 2026Oracle Cloud Infrastructure · Senior Lead Principal Software Engineer (IC5), region build
F2020 – 2023Oracle Cloud Infrastructure · distributed messaging and data planes
E2013 – 2020Microsoft · Senior Software Engineer, Whiteboard and OneNote · 3 US patents
D2010 – 2013Radiant Logic · Senior Engineer and Security Lead Architect, federated identity
C2006 – 2009Winwise · designed and implemented a high-throughput scheduler for heavy I/O workloads
B2001 – 2006Everbee Networks · security & cryptography: Airbus A380 avionics crypto audits, network stream-analysis appliances
A1999 – 2002ENSIIE, France · Master’s, Computer Engineering
0Outages from 50+ high-risk changes as Change Review Board gatekeeper
40+Design specs through the cross-team review framework he set up
2Promotion juries staffed by IC4–IC6 engineers, reviewing promotions from IC1 up to IC5
MATERIALS
Go · Python · Java · Terraform · Docker · Kafka Connect · MCP · RAG
Patent work
4 inventions · 3 granted · 2 published applicationsFig. 02 · US 10,339,372 B2Granted 2019Analog strokes to digital ink strokesA photo of a sketch or handwriting becomes editable digital ink.Microsoft · co-inventorOpen on Google Patents ↗Fig. 03 · Patent family2 granted · 2020, 2022Preserving styles and ink effects in ink-to-textConverted text keeps the pressure, color and effects of the original ink. Fig. 04 · US 2018/0300301 A1Published application · 2018Enhanced inking capabilities for content creation applicationsHandwritten words are matched to ink drawings you can insert and edit. Also filed in WO, EP and CN.Microsoft · co-inventorOpen on Google Patents ↗Fig. 05 · US 2018/0121074 A1Published application · 2018Freehand table manipulationHand-drawn strokes become a live table you can edit with gestures.Microsoft · co-inventorOpen on Google Patents ↗
Let’s talk systems.
Distributed systems, platform engineering, agents in production. Always happy to compare notes.